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medial and shorter postmedial streak on costa light buff, and a similar 

 streak on subcostal from near base to near end of cell ; a black streak 

 in cell with semilwaline whitish streaks above and below it; the 

 medial space from cell to submedian semihyaline whitish ; very faint 

 traces of fine smoky antemedial and medial lines from cell to sub- 

 median; a large fuscous black spot at end of cell and just beyond it, 

 reaching costa above discocellular, and expanding between veins 3 

 and 5; a fine whitish buff line on discocellular; postmedial semihya- 

 line white spots between veins 5 and 8 ; a fine black postmedial line 

 from vein 3, inangled on vein 2, then outbent t-o inner margin before 

 tornus; fuscous terminal streaks on interspaces, short between veins 

 3 and 5, and 7 and 8, below vein 3 reaching postmedial line; a fine 

 terminal black line. Hind wing hair brown, the cell and a spot 

 below it semihj'aline white. Wings below hair brown, the fore Aving 

 with postmedial spots as above, and two smaller spots outset between 

 veins 3 and 5 which are only faintly indicated on upper side ; the cel- 

 lular spot on hind wing not reaching base. 



Expanse. — 36 mm. 



Habitat. — Guantanamo, Cuba. 



Type.— C^t. No. 26322. U.S.N.M. 



Received from Doctor Ramsden. 



Looks more like an Eucereon than an Arctian. 



PELOCHYTA NABOR, new species. 



Male. — Head and body army brown, the abdomen dorsally clothed 

 with long tilleul buff hairs to beyond middle : fore legs darker shaded 

 in front. Fore wing wood brown, the markings fawn color irrorated 

 with fuscous black scales; an oblique shade from base of costa; a 

 broad antemedial fascia with a slight projection on median and vein 

 2; a patch at end of cell; a postmedial fascia broad at vein 8, inbent 

 to inner margin, constricted between veins 3 and 4; termen irregu- 

 larly spotted; all the markings very diffuse and sometimes reduced 

 to lines of fuscous black irrorations. Hind wing white ; termen from 

 vein 2 to apex, very narrowly avellaneous, also cilia ; cilia below 

 vein 2 white. Fore wing below whitish in disk and on inner margin, 

 otherwise wood brown. Hind wing below as above, the costa nar- 

 rowly wood brown. 



Expanse. — 38 mm. 



Habitat. — Oconeque, Peru. 



Typc.—C2ii. No. 26324, U.S.N.M. 



ELYSIUS RUFFIN. new species. 



Female. — Palpi and head orange buff', the third joint of palpi 

 light drab. Collar, thorax, and abdomen light orange yellow, the 



